Hello all, We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban

Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011. We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of

(in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun

Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for

two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee

Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for

their office support for chapter and community meetings and

support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated. We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world

celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60

happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At

juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia

greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian

in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English. With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key

enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks,

will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In

mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-exec(a)wikimedia.in Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for

updates. Cheers On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee, Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by

sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the

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Hi, Sorry for the potential muting of some responses with remarks about email etiquette as post script on my post. I am glad to see some responses. Please feel free to share suggestions, ideas, questions on how Chapter can help realize the collective dreams of Wikipedians through the mailing lists as well as wikimedia.in website. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com@ gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats!! > > This is great news!! > And on a perfect timing of the 10th Anniversary celebrations. > > -Sudhanwa > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > &lt;arjunaraoc(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the > > Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban > District > > Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011. > > > > We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of > Wikipedians > > (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun > Ramarathnam, > > Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta > for over > > two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation > > Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee > and > > Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia > Foundation. > > > > We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet > and > > Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for > extending > > their office support for chapter and community meetings and > registration > > support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and > Arun > > Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are > appreciated. > > > > We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world > are > > celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 > events > > happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At > this > > juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia > Movement to > > greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian > community > > in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all > Indian > > languages including English. > > > > With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key > role in > > enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few > weeks, you > > will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In > the > > mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive > committee > > mailing list wikimedia-in-exec(a)wikimedia.in > > > > Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for > further > > updates. > > > > Cheers > > > > On behalf of > > Wikimedia India Executive Committee, > > > > Arjuna Rao Chavala > > PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum > by not > > sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the > same > > on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page > > http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > > > -- > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > www.projects4students.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-IN-Exec mailing list > Wikimedia-IN-Exec(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-exec > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l